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Lessons learned from helping over 150 startups with marketing (from my Offer HN)
We've joined forces with Insight.io to add semantic code search (built on Elasticsearch) to our roadmap.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 913 posts.
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If you build it, they won't come, unless...
A/B tests and accumulating Twitter followers is not a marketing strategy, just as "we'll use salt and cheese" isn't a recipe.
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Apple's ping is a big pile of steaming dung
Hi 👋 you're reading a pretty old post! I started writing on here back in high school and this page may not reflect my current views. Recommend checking out related articles and categories down below, I've likely published more recent thoughts on this topic.
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Gizmodo and the Prototype iPhone
I have two issues regarding Gizmodo’s actions regarding this story.
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Jason Calacanis Knows He's Spamming Google, He Just Thinks It's No Big Deal
Last month Jason Calacanis wrote a rather sarcastic post aimed at Aaron Wall, which I am assuming was written in response to Aaron’s post, “Black Hat SEO Case Study: How Mahalo Makes Black Look White!“. In it Aaron discusses how sites that are composed largely of nothing more than auto-generated pages wrapped in…
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How I Used Amazon’s Mechanical Turk to Validate my Startup Idea
I am a big fan this whole “minimum viable product” philosophy. I’ve probably adapted it to my own interpretation, but basically I look at it as bootstrapping on crack, get your pr…
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RIAA paid its lawyers more than $16,000,000 in 2008 to recover only $391,000
Big hat tip to my friend Jon Newton at p2pnet.net for uncovering these documents. The RIAA's "business plan" is even worse than I'd guess...
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Startup Fundraising is a Time Sink
"Which one of you is going to be doing the fundraising?" queried a calm and collected Tom Robinson while in a loud venue one Saturday evening at a Startup School after-party. Tom had good reason to be relaxed that evening. His startup, 280 North, had been acquired by Motorola for 20 Million a few mo
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John Gruber's Post-I/O Thoughts
The big loser this week, though, was Microsoft. They’re simply not even part of the game.
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Why I Hate Adobe
Ok…hate is such a strong word. I don’t exactly hate them…I don’t hate anyone actually (not that I can think of ). However, the image below …
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Google acquires Metaweb (Freebase)
Insights from Googlers into our products, technology, and the Google culture
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'First to Do It' vs. 'First to Do It Right'
Apple wasn’t going to include a front-facing camera until they had software that made it useful in an iPhone-caliber way. HTC is happy to include a front-facing camera and leave its utility (and user experience) in the hands of third-party developers.
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You’re a little company, now act like one
You're afraid that looking like being a small company means you'll lose sales. It's actually the opposite -- you're alienating your best customers.
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How I Almost Got Acquired By Apple And Then Snubbed
iTunes Semantic Search Project Derailed By Apple2010152 points131 commentsTech Industry & Business details
This is a report of my interaction with Apple Inc. I have been watching Apple’s iPhone related news lately and i remember one of the iPhone OS related event where Apple executives took questi…
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Why airlines tend to be unionized
The explanation lies in the interaction of labor laws and aviation regulations. Let's consider labor laws first. The law compels a company to negotiate with a labor union. If it cannot reach an agreement, however, and the union goes out on strike, the company is able to hire replacement workers and continue its…
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Dear Twitter: Stop screwing over your developers
I really like Twitter. I think it’s a great, fun, service, that helps enable interesting online communities, and is a surprisingly effective way to spread news and information to lots of people online. One of the things that I’ve loved about Twitter is their API, and how open and welcoming they’ve been to developers…
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Turning on your Reality Distortion Field
I was catching up over coffee and a muffin with a student I hadn’t seen for years who’s now CEO of his own struggling startup. As I listened to him present the problems of matching lithium-ion bat…
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